Belt-lifter



(No Model.)

A. GAIRING.

BELT LIFTER.

No. 252,453. Patented Jan. 1"7, 1882.

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ADOLF GAIBING, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BELT-Ll FTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,453, dated January 1 7, 1882,

I 7 Application filed December 7, 1881. (No modell To allu'hom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLF GAIRING, of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements on Belt-Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements on Patent No. 235,970 for belt-lifters, and has for its objects to overcome certain del'ects which render said device practically inoperative and objectionable. In said patented device the first defect consists in the handle being straight, which prevents the lift er from passing or reaching over the pulley, but which strikestheshaft,andeitberjerkstheimplement out of the hand of the. user or else breaks the handle, and is liable to do injury; The second defect is thatthe spindle is secured in the sleeve of the handle by a nut on theend. This renders it difficult or slow to remove in case that it is requii ed to reverse the spindle, which frequently occurs; and, furthermore, if the spindle should be revolving in the opposite direction to that which the nut is screwed on, it is liable to unscrcw'the nut, and then the parts, being loosened, are liable to fall apart. The neXt or third deft-ct is that the flange is a simple sleeveless concave disk revolving on the spindle, requiring a shoulder for keeping it on thatwill prevent the disk from coming close to the pulley in putting on a belt.

My improvements consistin making a bent arm or handle for holding the working parts, a sleeve on the disk playing in a sleeve on the end of said arm or handle, and providing a seti screw in said sleeve which reaches into an an- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved belt-lifter.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section.

A is the staif or arm, which I secure in a wooden handle, like a rake'or hoe. It is bent or curved, as shown, in about a quarter-circle, and has on its upper end a permanent sleeve or socket, B, provided with. a set-screw, b.

D is a concavo-convexdisk, which I make with straight central portion and with short curved edge, the object being to supply more bearing-surface for the edge of the belt. Said disk has a permanent sleeve, E, fitting and revolving in the aforesaid sleeve or. socket B,

and has an annular groove, 0, cut in its outer surface, which receives the set-screw b, which holds the sleeve in place, but allows it to revolvefreely.

F is a spindle, having a small shoulder,f, seated in a countersunk recess in the face of the disk D. The spindle reaches through the sleeve E, and is headed or riveted down in a countersunk recess, which secures the spindle permanently, but is loosely fitted to allow it to revolve independently.

From the foregoing it will be seen that mym shown and described.

ADOLF GAIRING.

-Witnesses:

, Gno. W. TIBBITTS,

E. W. LAIRD. 

